Callaroga Shark Media. Maybe fourth of July. I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily
Comedy News. Eddie Murphy was on the New York Times conversation. I saw
the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, talking about this
one. I held on to it so i'd have something in the late off
position on July fourth. Pretty interesting interview. I did share it in the
Facebook group again, Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Now I didn't share it.
That's a lie, that's a conflation. I didn't share it. I
was going to share it, but Dylan shared it. Thank you Dylan,
And they remind us that at one point, Saturday Night Live was cud on
the thin ropes, and Eddie Murphy helped bring it back through sheer force of
charisma rights the Times, as well as instantly iconic, hilariously unpredictable recurring characters
like Gumby and mister Robinson. Eddie brought the show back to life. A
highly plausible argument can be made that without him, SNL may not have made
it to a tenth anniversary, let alone the fiftieth. I agree it would
have been really easy to put on Saturday Night Videos. I was watching Friday
Night Videos on. It was a YouTube, a full episode with bumpers and
everything. The first song was the Police Synchronicity two, and then it went
into Paul McCartney No More Lonely Nights. There was Lionel Richie, and I'm
like, this is wonderfully terrible, but I love that show. I lived
in Queen's We didn't get cable till nineteen eighty seven, and not because my
parents were cheap queens in New York City was not wired for cable television until
nineteen eighty seven. You couldn't get it, So Friday Night Videos and a
channel Nick called You sixty eight was all we had if here from the New
York City metro area. You know what I'm talking about anyway, Eddie,
back when the first Beverly Hills Cop came out, did you feel you understood
what it was about you that met the moment so perfectly? Eddie Murphy said
no, not even in retrospect. I was twenty two when I got to
do cop and twenty years old when I started doing forty eight hours. Now
I look back at those times and I trip about how young I was back
then. I kind of took it for granted one thing that led to another,
and I wound up on a movie set. Then when stuff worked and
became hit movies, I was like, Okay, that's what it's supposed to
be. Will Eddie Murphy go back to stand up? Eddie says, I
used to have little periods where I'd be like, I'm going to do it
again. The closest I got to do it again was right before the pandemic,
because I had done Saturday Night Live, and I was like, let
me go to do one stand up special and bring it all full circle.
Then the pandemic hit, and when you're stuck in the house for two years,
I wasn't going. When I got out of here, I want to
do stand up again. Here's a good analogy. It's like somebody was in
the military. They were on the front line in Vietnam, and they got
all these metals because they did all this amazing stuff. Then they moved up
and became in general. So it's like going to the general and saying,
hey, you ever think about going back to the front line. You want
to bullets whizz past your ear again. No, Eddie was Elvis the influence
behind some of the on stage stuff. You wore when doing stand up.
I'll jump in there. I think Richard Pryor was definitely an influence there.
Watch Sunset strip and then watch Eddie stuff a similar outfit. Eddie said,
Elvis had a huge influence on me, though other suits and raw I come
out, I have a scarf. I was rolling like Elvis too. I
didn't have the Memphis Mafia, but I had my little crew of dudes in
the same way you see me dressed in Delirious and in RAW. I used
to dress like that in the streets. Totally in my Elvis trip. When
I got older, I was like, oh my god, Elvis wasn't cool
at all. Elvis was going through some stuff now Michael Jackson, that whole
red jacket thing and thriller thrillers after Delirious. When I own the red suit.
I'm not saying he was influenced, but I had on the red jacket
before, Eddie. Do you understand what you mean? The comedians like Kevin
Hart and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Chris Tucker. Eddie said, well,
I didn't lay down a path. They took their own path. The
comic used to be the sidekick, the comic was the opening act, and
I changed it to where the comic can be the main attraction. That's fair.
They thought of comics one way, and I was like, no,
a comic could sell out the arena and a comic could be inn one hundred
million dollar movie. All that changed with black actors was like, the black
guy could be the star of the movie, and it doesn't have to be
a black exploitation movie. It could be a movie that's accessible to everyone all
around the world. The Hollirod Reporter did a comedy round table. Taylor Thomlinson
was on it. The questioned, Taylor, you said that audiences weren't as
interested in hearing you tackle darker subject material like your mother dying when you were
younger. I did you gauge that and when did a shift? Taylor said,
I just started really young, So watching a nineteen year old do stand
up at all is uncomfortable. People are already scared for you and nervous about
the show. So I don't think I had the maturity as a performer to
pull those jokes off. It took a few years of performing anywhere and everywhere
you could. How do you know when something's not working Taylor Tumlinson. She
says, people aren't laughing and it's devastating. It's what you would call a
bad show for other people. It's when people are laughing too much and you're
like, none of this is new. No, It's when people are sad
and uncomfortable and looking at you like are you almost done? What's so great
about stand up is that you know pretty quickly if something does or doesn't work.
Jackie Novak was on the round table and she feels that the question one
of their subjects that the rest of you have felt audiences wouldn't go with you,
and Jackie said yeah, but for Biglia said something to me like,
there's your agenda, and there's the audience's agenda or the booker's agenda. Work
your agenda for me. That meant I'm gonna put my show up in New
York, but I need to work it out first, and so I'm doing
it at the jukebox in Peoria, so I know it's gonna land. Well.
I mean, some people might find it interesting, but I'm planning my
feet and saying the words, and maybe I'm burning my chance in the room
where I did it. The punchline in Philly and my boyfriend we talk about
it now and he's like, yeah, the way you want up in Philly
just bombed was great. You had to do the thing you did. And
I was like, I bombed. I was always like, what do you
mean? I stood up there doing my art. It was almost delusion,
required delusion. But this phrase my agenda, really helped me almost not listen
to the crowd, and it was huge for me. My agenda doesn't matter
tonight. Everyone in this room might hate me, this club will never hire
me again. And I had a lot of bad nights before the run at
the Cherry Lane Theater, nights where I just had to stand there and say
my words and get them in my head. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla put
together a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty four so far next
weekend, Like on the thirteenth, I talked to to the executives at the
eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. So that'll be the Saturday Interview in about ten
days. This Saturday, Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with ties to the
comedy scene, is the Saturday Summer Interview. Anyway, The Gorilla has the
ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty four. And I like this list because
it doesn't match mine at all, and it reminded me of a bunch of
specials I need to catch up on and this will be a good weekend for
that, right and plus itagely fourth, I have to watch Jaws tonight on
Thest Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen Don l Rawlings a New Day. I can't
remember if I clicked on that one or not. Dusty Slate Working Man,
I love that one. I didn't drop the G there. That's not a
queen's accent. The title is called working with No g Man Keith Robinson's Different
Strokes on Netflix. Haven't gotten to that one yet. I was shotgunning the
Bear. I wanted to watch the entire Bear before I got spoiled. I
have completed it now I won't spoil it for you. And I'm also trying
to keep up on the boys, and I can only watch about ninety minutes
of TV in one sitting and then I fall asleep. Rommy Us have some
more Feelings. I didn't like the direction on that one, even though I
really like Rommy. Alex Edelman's Just for Us I keep forgetting to watch that
one. That one is on Proper HBO. Dan Locatta's for the Boys.
I'm hearing great stuff about that that's on YouTube. Neil Brennan's Crazy Good.
Like Neil, I feel like perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow someone added some
accidental crowd noise. I'm sure nobody meant to do it, but the mix
just sounded suspicious to Johnny Mack and I punched out on it. Sal Volcano's
terrified. Hearing good things about that one that was on YouTube, but Taylor
Tomlinson's Have It All. That's on my list. And I know I do
this frequently, but let me just skim my list really quickly for you in
case you're looking for something to watch this weekend. My list rost of Tom
Brady, David Tel Hot Cross Buns on Netflix, Triumph You Lucky Bastards YouTube,
David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World YouTube, Dusty Slay, Kyle
Kinane YouTube, Dirt nap As an all time fifteen minute chunk about Fast and
the Furious. Dmet You Martin on Netflix, Jimmy Carr Netflix, Kat Williams,
Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agendas on Netflix. Brian Simpson tig Nataro Taylor, Tomlinson,
Rachel Feinstein also unfrosted the Jerry Seinfeld movie and John Marcos Siresi's recent fifteen
minutes that he dropped on YouTube. But last week or this week all highly
recommended. And this is reminding me too. Vulture had a list. There's
a couple of things I want to catch up on this weekend. So let
me just remind myself. Oh, I need to add Nathan McIntosh down with
Tech to my list. That's on YouTube as well. I'll do that now.
One of the ones I want to check out that Vulture recommends Christina Catherine
Martinez is how to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age. That's on YouTube.
I just want to check out. And Natasha Vain Blonde World Dads here
on YouTube. And let's keep the podcast tight today so we can all hit
the beach or do whatever it is you do on July fourth. That's your
comedy news for today. Back tomorrow with a normal episode. See then,